The 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships were held in Tokyo, Japan, from October 7–16, 2011, at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium. Due to uncertainty over the nuclear situation following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, the International Federation of Gymnastics revealed it was considering moving the event, but on May 22 FIG president Bruno Grandi announced that the World Championships would take place in Tokyo as planned."World gymnastics championships staying in Tokyo", USA Today, May 22, 2011. Retrieved 2011-07-28.

Participating countries

83 countries participated, which included gymnasts from

Albania Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bangladesh Belarus Belgium Brazil Bulgaria Canada Chile China Chinese Taipei Colombia Costa Rica Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Dominican Republic Egypt El Salvador Finland France Georgia Germany Greece Guatemala Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Kazakhstan Kuwait Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Malaysia Mexico Monaco Mongolia Namibia Netherlands New Zealand Norway Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Romania Russia Saudi Arabia Serbia Singapore Slovakia Slovenia South Africa South Korea Spain Sweden Switzerland Thailand Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom United States Uzbekistan Venezuela Vietnam

Olympic qualification

Teams This event was the first qualifying stage for the 2012 Summer Olympics, which were held in London. The top 24 men's and women's teams from the 2010 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships were allowed to send a full team of gymnasts. The top 8 men's and women's teams directly qualified for the team events at the 2012 Olympics. Teams placed 9th to 16th got a second chance to qualify a full team at the Olympic Test Event on January 10–18, 2012, from which four men's and women's teams qualified.

Individuals The winners of gold, silver and bronze medals in each apparatus qualified for the Olympics, either as individuals or as members of their national team. Additional individual gymnasts qualified from the Test Event in January.

Competition schedule All times are JST (UTC+9). Date Time Round 7 October 2011 11:30 Women's team qualifying (Day 1) 8 October 2011 11:30 Women's team qualifying (Day 2) 9 October 2011 11:15 Men's team qualifying (Day 1) 10 October 2011 11:15 Men's team qualifying (Day 2) 11 October 2011 19:00 Women's team final 12 October 2011 18:00 Men's team final 13 October 2011 18:00 Women's All-around final 14 October 2011 19:00 Men's All-around final Date Time Round15 October 2011 13:30 Men's floor final 13:55 Women's vault final 14:45 Men's pommel horse final 15:10 Women's uneven bars final 15:35 Men's rings final16 October 2011 14:00 Men's vault final 14:25 Women's balance beam final 15:15 Men's parallel bars final 15:40 Women's floor final 16:10 Men's horizontal bar final

Oldest and youngest competitors

Female Name Country Date of birth Age Youngest Gabby Douglas United States December 31, 1995 15 years Oldest Oksana Chusovitina Germany June 19, 1975 36 years Male Name Country Date of birth Age Youngest Abdullah Khalid A Albuwasi Saudi Arabia August 10, 1995 16 years Oldest Yordan Yovchev Bulgaria February 24, 1973 38 years

Medalists Women Sabrina VegaJordyn WieberMcKayla MaroneyAly RaismanGabby DouglasAlicia Sacramone Ksenia AfanasyevaViktoria KomovaAnna DementyevaYulia BelokobylskayaTatiana NabievaYulia Inshina Huang QiushuangYao JinnanTan SixinSui LuJiang YuyuanHe Kexin Men Zou KaiTeng HaibinChen YibingZhang ChenglongFeng ZheGuo Weiyang Kōhei UchimuraKazuhito TanakaKenya KobayashiKoji YamamuroMakoto OkiguchiYusuke Tanaka Jacob DaltonJonathan HortonDanell LeyvaSteven LegendreAlexander NaddourJohn Orozco none awarded

Women's results Qualification 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships – Women's qualification

Team all-around

In the qualifying round, 5 gymnasts performed on each apparatus, and the top 4 scores were counted towards the team's total. The top 8 teams qualified to the final.

In the final round, held on October 11, only 3 gymnasts performed on each apparatus, and all the scores counted. The United States team won the gold medal with solid performances by all gymnasts on all apparatus, while the Russian team made several mistakes and finished a distant second. China narrowly beat Romania to win the bronze medal, followed by Great Britain in fifth place.Wieber leads USA to Gold This was the highest ranking finish Great Britain had ever had for a team at a World Championship.

Oldest and youngest competitors

Name Country Date of birth Age Youngest Gabby Douglas United States 31/12/95 15 years Oldest Oksana Chusovitina Germany 19/06/75 36 years

Rank Team Total 46.816 (1) 43.865 (2) 44.732 (3) 43.998 (1) 179.411 Jordyn Wieber 15.833 14.766 15.033 14.766 Aly Raisman 14.950 - 14.866 14.666 McKayla Maroney 16.033 - - 14.566 Sabrina Vega - 14.366 14.833 - Gabby Douglas - 14.733 - - Alicia Sacramone* - - - - Anna Li - - - - 44.499 (2) 44.698 (1) 43.066 (4) 43.066 (3) 175.329 Viktoria Komova 15.033 15.566 13.866 13.800 Tatiana Nabieva 14.666 14.966 - - Ksenia Afanasyeva 14.800 - - 14.633 Anna Dementyeva - 14.166 14.900 - Yulia Belokobylskaya - - - 14.633 Yulia Inshina - - 14.300 - Alena Polyan - - - - 43.824 (5) 43.132 (4) 44.832 (2) 41.032 (7) 172.820 Yao Jinnan 14.958 14.433 15.200 14.333 Tan Sixin - 14.966 13.966 12.066 Sui Lu - - 15.666 14.633 Huang Qiushuang 14.700 13.733 - - Jiang Yuyuan 14.166 - - - He Kexin - - - - 4 44.149 (4) 40.032 (8) 45.099 (1) 43.132 (2) 172.412 Cătălina Ponor 14.933 - 15.166 14.633 Ana Porgras - 14.066 15.300 - Diana Chelaru 14.566 - - 14.233 Amelia Racea - 13.000 14.633 - Raluca Haidu 14.650 12.966 - - Diana Bulimar - - - 14.266 5 41.665 (7) 43.565 (3) 42.607 (5) 41.833 (5) 169.670 Hannah Whelan 13.966 13.466 14.633 13.600 Elizabeth Tweddle - 15.666 - 14.533 Imogen Cairns 14.133 - - 13.700 Danusia Francis 13.566 - 14.141 - Rebecca Downie - 14.433 - - Jennifer Pinches - - 13.833 - 6 44.282 (3) 42.032 (6) 40.632 (8) 41.533 (6) 168.479 Elisabeth Seitz 14.616 13.466 14.166 13.700 Nadine Jarosch 14.333 - 13.700 14.100 Oksana Chusovitina 15.333 - 12.766 - Kim Bui - 14.300 - 13.733 Lisa Katharina Hill - 14.266 - - Pia Tolle - - - - 7 41.866 (6) 42.066 (5) 42.066 (6) 39.691 (8) 167.122 Asuka Teramoto 14.033 14.600 14.500 - Koko Tsurumi - 13.366 14.833 14.058 Rie Tanaka 14.233 14.100 - 12.533 Yu Minobe - - 14.166 - Yuko Shintake 13.600 - - - Kyoko Oshima - - - 13.100 8 41.499 (8) 41.541 (7) 41.399 (7) 42.300 (4) 166.739 Lauren Mitchell 13.200 13.666 14.566 14.900 Ashleigh Brennan 13.766 - 13.900 13.700 Larrissa Miller - 14.075 - 13.700 Emily Little 14.533 - - -Georgia-Rose Brown - 13.800 - -Mary-Anne Monckton - - 12.933 -

Controversy

During the presentation of medals, the National Anthem of the United States was abruptly ended, causing some frustration amongst both the coaches and the gymnasts themselves.

It has since been reported that right before the team competition began, McKayla Maroney from the United States, who was a member of the team who won the gold medal in the team competition and later won the individual vault title, was sexually assaulted by the former national team and Olympic team doctor Larry Nassar. Maroney has since described this incident as "the scariest night of my life" Nassar, later convicted pedophile, was on the floor next to the gymnasts for most of the world championships.

Alicia Sacramone injured her Achilles tendon during the last podium training and had already left Japan when the Team Final started. However, US National Team Coordinator Marta Karolyi opted to keep her on the roster instead of officially naming alternate Anna Li to the team and subsequently competed with only 5 instead of the usual 6 gymnasts. This led to Sacramone receiving her tenth World Championships medal and officially becoming the US gymnast with the most World Championship medals. As Sacramone was not present during the competition, Li dressed, supported the team on the floor, and accepted the team medal for Sacramone. Li later passed the medal on to Sacramone and received (as customary for the World team alternates) a copy from USAG.

Individual all-around The final was held on October 13. None of the medalists from the previous year were able to compete to defend their title as the gold and bronze medalists—Aliya Mustafina and Rebecca Bross, respectively—were both unable to compete at worlds due to knee injuries, and silver medalist Jiang Yuyuan did not qualify high enough over her teammates. A number of gymnasts ranked high enough to make the all-around final, but did not qualify due to the two-per-country rule. All the gymnasts from the US that competed in the preliminary round ranked in the top 24. The gymnasts affected were Gabby Douglas (5th), Sabrina Vega (9th), and McKayla Maroney (12th) of the United States. Also affected were Tan Sixin (15th) and Jiang Yuyuan (20th) of China, Yuko Shintake (21st) and Yu Minobe (23rd) of Japan, and Anna Dementyeva (31st) of Russia. The last gymnast to qualify was Carlotta Ferlito, who ranked 32nd in the preliminary competition.

Oldest and youngest competitors

Name Country Date of birth Age Youngest Jordyn Wieber United States 12/07/95 16 years OldestDaniele Hypólito 08/09/84 27 years

Rank Gymnast Total 15.716 13.600 15.266 14.800 59.382 14.933 15.400 14.683 14.333 59.349 14.966 14.933 13.933 14.766 58.598 4 15.233 12.900 14.525 14.900 57.558 5 14.733 14.966 13.633 14.100 57.432 6 14.100 14.133 15.100 13.966 57.299 7 14.466 14.200 13.400 14.666 56.732 8 14.600 13.133 13.933 15.033 56.699 9 14.400 13.258 14.333 14.133 56.124 10 14.300 13.733 14.000 14.000 56.033 11 14.758 13.933 13.366 13.766 55.823 12 12.733 13.833 14.466 14.500 55.532 13 14.300 12.866 14.333 13.866 55.365 14 14.200 12.866 14.616 13.400 55.082 15 13.800 12.533 14.700 13.966 54.999 16 14.866 13.433 13.400 13.233 54.932 17 13.700 13.766 13.766 13.633 54.865 18 13.466 13.366 14.416 13.566 54.814 19 13.933 13.900 12.933 13.966 54.732 20 14.233 13.833 13.933 12.700 54.699 21 14.133 13.266 13.933 13.166 54.498 22 13.966 13.466 12.933 13.366 53.731 23 13.633 13.300 13.566 13.100 53.599 24 14.000 10.300 14.266 13.733 52.299

Vault Phan's bronze medal was the first medal for Vietnam at a World Championships. Maroney's performance secured the third consecutive World gold medal for the USA on women's vault following Kayla Williams in 2009 and teammate Alicia Sacramone in 2010. Chusovitina's silver was her 11th world medal (her 9th vault world medal). As her first world championships was in Indianapolis in 1991, she has been competing at an international level since before her fellow vault finalists were born.

Oldest and youngest competitors

Name Country Date of birth Age Youngest McKayla Maroney United States 09/12/95 15 years Oldest Oksana Chusovitina 19/06/75 36 years

Position Gymnast D Score E Score Pen. Score 1 Rk D Score E Score Pen. Score 2 Rk Total 6.500 9.300 15.800 (1) 5.600 9.200 14.800 (1) 15.300 6.300 8.766 15.066 (2) 5.500 8.900 14.333(3) 14.733 5.900 8.700 14.600 (6) 5.800 8.933 14.733 (2) 14.666 4 5.800 9.066 14.866 (4) 5.600 8.666 14.266 (4)14.566 5 6.300 8.600 14.900 (3)5.200 8.800 14.000 (6) 14.450 6 5.800 8.766 14.566(7) 8.933 14.133 (5) 14.349 7 6.300 8.433 14.733 (5) 8.500 13.700 (7) 14.216 8 5.300 8.600 13.900 (8) 0.000* 0.000 0.000 (8) 6.950

Yamilet Peña attempted a handspring double front vault, which has a 7.1 D Value score, but because she landed on her back, she scored a 0.000.

Uneven bars

Oldest and youngest competitors

Name Country Date of birth Age Youngest Gabby Douglas United States 31/12/95 15 years Oldest Huang Qiushuang 28/05/92 19 years